LONDON -- Chelsea couldn't beat Liverpool on the pitch, but a more significant outcome than Sunday's 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge might be that the Blues are now on the verge of signing Moisés Caicedo.
This was a contest which served as a 90-minute commercial explaining why both sides were fighting to sign the Brighton defensive midfielder -- while also vying with each other to land another player with boundless potential, Southampton's Romeo Lavia.
Sources told ESPN late Sunday that Brighton and Chelsea finally agreed on a British transfer record fee of £115 million ($146m) for Caicedo, who will have been enthused further by the promising signs of progress under new manager Mauricio Pochettino.